Re: Fresh harddisk install of Etch,after the upgrade 3.1/4.0 with apt-get failed.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:07:50AM -0700, alexandre suzuki wrote: > The upgrade from 3.1 to Etch using apt-get went very bad,now I don?t > even have access to the system,the login prompt freezes when I do the > login.Now I?m thinking about doing a hard disk based fresh install of > Etch. I have a

Fresh harddisk install of Etch,after the upgrade 3.1/4.0 with apt-get failed.

The upgrade from 3.1 to Etch using apt-get went very bad,now I don´t even have access to the system,the login prompt freezes when I do the login.Now I´m thinking about doing a hard disk based fresh install of Etch. I have a partition HFS formatted able to do the install from it,but the needed files

Re: apt-get failed to install anything

Siwei Zhang wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives# more /etc/debian_version 3.1 You are using sarge, but your apt repository is pointing to current stable "etch", which makes your apt unusable. You should follow sarge->etch upgrade guide first by refering to etch release note: ht

apt-get failed to install anything

Hi there, I found out one of our machine have problems to install anything using apt-get. The following are the errors. Could someone help please? Thanks. Kevin SZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives# more /etc/debian_version 3.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives#

Re: dselect/apt-get failed -- 6 year Debian installation corrupted

I have upgraded this computer's installation since 1997, about 6 years, transferring the installed disk drives across 3 successively newer computers. Two years ago, after upgrading several computers from potato to woody, I found upgrading from potato to woody produced enough problems that I never u

Re: apt-get failed SOLVED

HI! I had the same error. Upgrading debconf by hand solved it. Thanks! Thorsten On 02-Nov-99 Joey Hess wrote: > > Upgrade debconf by hand to the current version in unstable. > > jack wrote: >> hi, >> >> the error message is: >> >> debian:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade >> Reading Package Lists...

Re: apt-get failed

I linked /usr/share/debconf/confmodule.sh to /usr/share/debconf/confmodule and then it worked (it was replaced when debconf got installed). I suppose that 'touch /usr/share/debconf/confmodule' might have worked also. On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 05:49:27PM -0500, jack wrote: > hi, > > the error messa

Re: apt-get failed

Upgrade debconf by hand to the current version in unstable. jack wrote: > hi, > > the error message is: > > debian:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > w3-el-e20

apt-get failed

hi, the error message is: debian:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: w3-el-e20 The following NEW packages will be installed: libgtkmm The following packages have been ke